How To Install appmenu-qt5 on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install appmenu-qt5 in Fedora 36. appmenu-qt5 is Support for global DBus-exported application menu in Qt5

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install appmenu-qt5 on Fedora 36.

What is appmenu-qt5

This is a different, Qt5-compatible approach of the existing appmenu-qt (https appmenu-qt5 is a Qt5 QPA theme plugin that adds support for application menus to Qt5 applications. This only works for Qt5 versions >= 5.2 currently. To enable the support, set QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=appmenu-qt5 in your environment or install the appmenu-qt5-profile.d package to enable system-wide, see README.fedora BEFORE for further information.

We can use yum or dnf to install appmenu-qt5 on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install appmenu-qt5.

Install appmenu-qt5 on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install appmenu-qt5 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install appmenu-qt5

Install appmenu-qt5 on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install appmenu-qt5 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install appmenu-qt5

How To Uninstall appmenu-qt5 on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the appmenu-qt5 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove appmenu-qt5

appmenu-qt5 Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/e295fa710d7db9c6eae9b7578516a6b7600489
/usr/lib/qt5/plugins/platformthemes/libappmenu-qt5.so
/usr/share/doc/appmenu-qt5
/usr/share/doc/appmenu-qt5/README
/usr/share/doc/appmenu-qt5/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/appmenu-qt5/appmenu-qt5.csh
/usr/share/doc/appmenu-qt5/appmenu-qt5.sh
/usr/share/licenses/appmenu-qt5
/usr/share/licenses/appmenu-qt5/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install appmenu-qt5 on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install appmenu-qt5 on Fedora 36.

What is appmenu-qt5

This is a different, Qt5-compatible approach of the existing appmenu-qt (https appmenu-qt5 is a Qt5 QPA theme plugin that adds support for application menus to Qt5 applications. This only works for Qt5 versions >= 5.2 currently. To enable the support, set QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=appmenu-qt5 in your environment or install the appmenu-qt5-profile.d package to enable system-wide, see README.fedora BEFORE for further information.

We can use yum or dnf to install appmenu-qt5 on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install appmenu-qt5.

Install appmenu-qt5 on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install appmenu-qt5 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install appmenu-qt5

Install appmenu-qt5 on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install appmenu-qt5 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install appmenu-qt5

How To Uninstall appmenu-qt5 on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the appmenu-qt5 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove appmenu-qt5

appmenu-qt5 Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/f180c3b0ea776753a79de8645a0575d46be040
/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/platformthemes/libappmenu-qt5.so
/usr/share/doc/appmenu-qt5
/usr/share/doc/appmenu-qt5/README
/usr/share/doc/appmenu-qt5/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/appmenu-qt5/appmenu-qt5.csh
/usr/share/doc/appmenu-qt5/appmenu-qt5.sh
/usr/share/licenses/appmenu-qt5
/usr/share/licenses/appmenu-qt5/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install appmenu-qt5 on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).